Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq on Monday killed 16 people, including 12 struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Tikrit

Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq on Monday killed 16 people, including 12 struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Tikrit, officials said.
  
The unrest came three days after attacks at a Tikrit mosque and hospital where victims were being treated killed 24.

Monday's attack killed 12 people, including military intelligence Colonel Nuri Sabah al-Mashhadani and two other officers, and wounded 20 others, according to a police captain and an army captain, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. Nine soldiers were among the dead, including the three officers.
  
Salaheddin provincial health director Raid al-Juburi had earlier put the toll at eight dead and 17 wounded.
  
The explosion targeted the main gate of a fortified compound housing several of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces, which is home to security offices and also the mosque that was attacked on Friday.

In Baghdad, two attacks by gunmen on checkpoints in northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah killed three, one soldier and two anti-Qaeda militiamen, and wounded two others, an interior ministry official and a military official said.
  
And a car bomb in the eastern district of Palestine Street killed one person and wounded 10 others, the ministry official said.